The Landfill

A clever idea carried off very well indeed. Danny Vickers finds that someone has been in the old car in the landfill tip. There's some tapes and a message, a bargain: in exchange for listening to a story on the tape you must record your own. So, a great excuse for linking some wonderfully vivid and very varied stories, all marked by the apparent simplicity of good spoken narrative. And, connecting them, there is also Danny's seeming inability to complete the bargain because of his stutter. It's a good read, a good collection of stories to read from and a great stimulus for oral work and storytelling by any group or class.